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106 ungoverned so long that it is now quite ungovernable. The first gives us such lines as these—

The second such as these—

The third such as these, which Edgar Allan Poe (a fine artist even in the choice of his mottoes) prefixed to his Unparalleled Adventure of one Hans Pfaall—

Or these—

As Tom o' Bedlams did not wander the country when Blake wrote, the elements of vagabondage and mountebankism are not in his piece. But as an expression of lunacy—the government of reason overthrown, and wild imagination making the anarchy more anarchic by its reign of terror—it is thoroughly of the old Elizabethan